scent trail

• School transmutation
• Spell Lists
  • druid 2
• Casting Time 1 standard action
• Components V, S, M (a queen ant)
• Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
• Target(s) one creature/level, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart
• Duration 1 hour/level
• Saving Throw Fortitude negates (harmless)
• Spell Resistance yes (harmless)

You, or a willing creature you touch, lay down a trail of scents that only the creatures you designate at the time of casting can detect. These creatures find it very easy to follow this trail. They gain a +20 competence bonus on any Survival checks made for the purpose of tracking the creature laying this trail. Subject creatures with the scent special ability gain a +10 competence bonus on Wisdom or Survival checks to follow the trail.

In addition, you can leave scent messages along the trail. Each word or emotion in this message requires spending a move action in the same spot. Subject creatures seeking to understand this message must make another DC 20 Survival check, with a –1 penalty for every word or emotion in the message, in order to understand it. Creatures cannot benefit from this smell if they cannot use, or do not have, a sense of smell. Creatures can use this spell to backtrack through a dungeon, maze, or similar areas even if the creature laying down the trail crossed over the spot multiple times.